5th update to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform is available!
Red Hat: New update - 30/03/2010
RALEIGH, NC - March 30, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of the fifth update to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5. Adding features designed to operate across physical, virtual and cloud deployments, the update offers enhanced virtualization and interoperability capabilities combined with support for important new hardware platforms. As with all Red Hat updates, application compatibility and certification with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform is fully maintained, meaning the broad portfolio of certified applications for Red Hat Enterprise Linux applies to the new update. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 is available to subscribing customers via Red Hat Network today.
Driving leadership across virtual, physical, and cloud deployments, the fifth update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 includes enhancements to hardware, virtualization, and interoperability.
- Hardware enablement. Significantly improved performance, price/performance, scalability, and reliability are made possible with support for new hardware architectures.
- Virtualization performance. Improvements in virtualization and virtual performance make Red Hat Enterprise Linux an increasingly attractive choice for building out virtual machine environments.
- Interoperability. With this release, there is improved interoperability with Microsoft Windows server 2009 with an update to Samba, extending Active Directory integration. This better maps users and groups on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems and simplifies managing file systems across platforms.
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